Saturday, 12 February 2011

Marlon Gobel Fall Winter 2011 featuring Christian Louboutin shoes

what a stunner! word began circulating late last year that christian louboutin would be designing shoes for new york based designer marlon gobel's fall winter 2011 collection. it is no meant feat for relative new comer gobel to impress and persuade the shoe maestro to create a small collection just for his show. marlon gobel presented his fall winter 2011 collection in new york on thursday, and as expected all eyes were on the shoes.

the shoes are absolutely breath-taking. i don't want to go into the realms of whether the shoes will be practical for retailing or airport wear. these are created for the show and it does nothing short of show stopping. and i feel for gobel, there's so much hype around this collection that cliche to say, it will make or break him. i admitted many times that i am a shoe person, so naturally i'm drawn to these pieces of art. his clothes are actually pretty good, i do like several pieces but can't help feel that the clothes played second fiddle to the show stopping footwear, red soles or not.

the gold colored spiked slippers appeared to be a hybrid of the rollerball slippers with pigalle spikes. i shall hazard a guess: rollerball pigalle? i know it sounds crazy but i would so wear that. and then there's the calmer nude suede slippers with the baubles details on the front. totally fit for a prince's wedding! and then there were varying versions of tasseled and ribboned slippers.

i would say this is a dandy and romantic collection, further made interesting by the gorgeous shoes. i hope the shoes get put into production. probably will cost a mortgage, but that's not stopping me from trying in stores to my heart's content.

16 comments:

i never posted on your site before but read it all the time, i love it. this shoes are to DIE FOR! are they going to be sold. think i may have to stop by the store downtown NYC and get the word about these amazing shoes.

What can only be best described as being 'upstaged' by shoes! They are a truly amazing collection of styles and ideas and the colour 'violet suede' with gold babubles is stunning! I am sure there is a small elite customer who would pay a small fortune for them and they are certainly likely to 'stop' traffic! Bravo!!

The Dandy Pot Pourri are a very exclusive shoe and are only available in Paris, I should know I tracked them down and have placed the only 44 on reserve I arrive the 23rd will send pics then... Till then be very jealous!